By Roan Hollander
In early December, the New Haven Environmental History Project and Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute hosted “Teaching with Maps: New Haven Past and Present...
Is it possible to create the “perfect” expression of data on a map?
William Rankin doesn’t think so. While most mainstream maps that use a jigsaw-puzzle-like format — solid...
As a child in Chiba, Japan, Moeko Fujii spent a lot of time watching old Hollywood films with her grandmother, who was a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor.
“One of my first...
The relationship between Nile flood variability and Egyptian political stability has been studied since Barbara Bell’s pioneering work in the 1970s, yet precise causal...
By Roan Hollander
Colton Klein, History of Art PhD and Environmental Humanities Graduate Coordinator, delivering welcome remarks.
This past Thursday, Yale Environmental...
Maps are ubiquitous in contemporary life—not just for navigation, but for making sense of our society, our environment, and even ourselves. In an instant, huge datasets can...
The New Haven Environmental History Project will host a December 4th workshop for area teachers on teaching with maps and making maps with students. The workshop is part of...
In Inhabitants of the Deep, Jonathan Howard undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep in African American literature. Howard contends that the deep—a geographic...
By Roan Hollander
Kathleen Quaintance is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art. As a historian of modern craft and technology, she studies transitions between...
“Maintaining Impermanence: Constructing Identity in the Philippines” opened this past Thursday in the Yale School of Architecture’s North Gallery. The exhibition was...
We are excited to announce that Zaya Delgerjargal’s film, Herders at the Edge, won Best Short Documentary at the Climate Film Festival in New York, the largest climate-...
On Thursday, September 11th, Yale Environmental Humanities held a welcome back panel and reception to usher in a new academic year of environmental humanities events and...
Twelve Ph.D. students from across the humanities joined Yale this fall as the fifth cohort of Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellows in the Environmental Humanities. The...
The Fall 2025 film series Work/Place at the Whitney Humanities Center traces the cinematic relationship between labor and its environments, from salt mines and city streets...
The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology has launched a video interview series spotlighting alumni who work at the intersection of spiritual traditions and environmental...
The Fall 2025 “A History of Scientific Forestry: From Extraction to Ecosystem Management” webinar series organized by Yale Forest Forum will explore the history of “...
Yale’s Living Village, a state-of-the-art residential complex designed to give back to the natural environment more than it takes, has emerged as a key component of the Yale...
Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel and reception on Thursday, September 11th, at HQ 134.
Panel discussion with Q&A: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Panelists: ...
Last month, a group of twelve graduate students associated with Yale Environmental Humanities traveled from New Haven to northeastern Connecticut for an overnight retreat at...
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the six 2025 recipients of the Graduate Certificate in the Environmental Humanities sponsored by the Yale Graduate...
